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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/tengwar/READ-ME b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/tengwar/READ-ME new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..c5a2bbf8e6b --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/tengwar/READ-ME @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +This directory contains the following files: + +Metafont files for the Tengwar font. The normal design size is +of course(?) 10 points, although for ornamental purposes the +best size seems to be about 14 points. Thus, + + \mode:=localmode; mag:=magstep2; input tengwar + +is the best command line to use. + + tengwar.mf The main file. + tiw.mf "input" file to include all the other pieces. + + telcor.mf Stem definitions for the table letters. + luvar.mf Bow definitions for the table letters. + bars.mf Horizontal bars that are part of table letters. + + tincotema.mf These four files are the four columns of the + parmatema.mf regular table letters (1--24). + calmatema.mf + quessetema.mf + + additionals.mf Characters 25--36 from the bottom of the table. + fullvowels.mf The unique vowel characters from the Mode + of Beleriand. + + accents.mf Diacritical vowels, dots below, bars, etc. + carriers.mf Things to put accents on. + + punctuation.mf Punctuation marks. + numerals.mf JRRT's numerals as reported by Christopher + Tolkien (British Tolkien Society 1981). + + ligtable.mf Some convenient ligatures. + +Two samples using plain TeX accenting macros to generate pretty stuff: + + quenya.tex Namarie + sindarin.tex A Elbereth Gilthoniel + +Miscellaneous other stuff: + + READ-ME This file. + Copyright My legal mark, in the spirit of TeX and GNU. Note + that this font is *not* public domain; I retain the + copyright. However, distribution is free as long + as you keep it free. + tengwarweird.mf An alternative to tengwar.mf, experimenting + with other pen parameters. + +---------------------------------------------------------------- + +The letter values are, necessarily, somewhat idiosyncratic. By and large, +they are optimized for an English (Westron) mode using the "full" vowels +from the Mode of Beleriand. Obviously, using diacritical vowels will +require an input file that looks like line noise (see quenya.tex), or +will require sufficiently ingenious TeX macros and "active" characters +to perform the accenting where needed. This is left as an exercise +for the reader. In any case, it is recommended that you print a table +out using "testfont.tex" so you can see what is where. + +The punctuation marks are based on those found in "Namarie". I am not +thrilled over the look of the question mark, but did not have an +assortment of examples for this character as I did for the others. + +The numerals purport to be genuine creations of J.R.R. Tolkien, +unearthed by Christopher Tolkien in 1981. I worked from a photocopy +of an article attributed to the British Tolkien Society and copyright +by Christopher Tolkien (which copyright appears to have been +violated by whoever made the photocopy). I presume that duplicating +these numerals in digital form is governed by the same laws as duplicating +the other letters from Lord of the Rings (which is also copyright); +I hope this is all legal. To the best of my knowledge, this is the +first digitized Tengwar font that incorporated these numerals. I do not +especially care for the look of these numerals, but once again, there +was only the single page of specimens to work with, and this page +did not show numerals mixed with letters in the same calligraphic style. +If the numerals do not look sufficiently different from letters, the +practice of the Eldar was to accent each numeral with a dot above; for +a long string of numerals, a continuous bar above the string could be +used (experiment with \vrule or \hrule for this). Finally, numerals +were written in a decimal base, but with the low-order digits FIRST. +So the speed of light would be ``000681'' miles/second, if the Eldar had +reckoned in miles. + +The S-hook, `halla' carrier, and Beleriandic "w-squiggle" (seen in +Sauron Defeated) were added September 1994 to work better with +Ivan Derzhanski's TengTeX macros. + +I have experimented only a little bit with the "meta" possibilities for +this font, although I have made something of an attempt to parametrize +most of the glyphs. Try `tengwarweird' for a different look. You are +encouraged to experiment with the parameter settings and are +*DEFINITELY* encouraged to send me any interesting settings (and changes +that might be required to accomodate those settings). + + Mike Urban + urban@netcom.com |